Saturday, May 12, 2012

Top 25 in Role-Playing

Here's a list of the top sellers in role-playing over the last thirty days, by quantity sold.

PF: Skull & Shackles: The Wormwood Mutiny

PFCS: Pirates of the Inner Sea

Knights of the Dinner Table 185

Kobold Quarterly Magazine #21

CoC: Cthulhu By Gaslight

PFCS: Isles of the Shackles

Flip-mat: Urban Tavern

PFCS: Blood of Fiends

Pathfinder RPG: Core Rules HC

Pathfinder RPG: Bestiary HC

Pathfinder RPG: Bestiary 3

D&D 4.0 Player's Handbook

D&D Dungeon Survival Handbook

Marvel Heroic Role Playing

Rifts: Lemuria

Pathfinder RPG: GM's Screen

The Rifter #58

Dresden Files RPG: Volume 1

Traveller RPG 2300AD

Pathfinder Advanced Player's Guide

Pathfinder RPG: Bestiary 2 HC

Pathfinder: Ultimate Combat HC

PFRPG: Ultimate Magic

Call of Cthulhu 6th Edition

4.0 Monster Manual

Pathfinder clearly dominates the list with over half the entries. Dungeons & Dragon 4E still chugs along with a few entries, the best seller being Player's Handbooks, so it's far from out of the picture.

Magazines have made a comeback since the recession, and we now sell twice as many Kobold Quarterly and Knights of the Dinner Table than before. It's interesting that Kobold Quarterly is approaching the sales level of Dragon magazine from back in the day.

There are a couple Call of Cthulhu entries, a game that has gained a lot of traction with us lately. Traveller 2300AD would be much higher if the distributors weren't always out.

It's a fairly tame period in general for RPGs, especially when compared to the CCG releases, any one of which would dwarf the entire RPG department several times over.

Here are the top 15 RPG companies in our store by sales. The number in this list is how they rank against other categories in the store (there are 146), not just RPGs:

6

Paizo Publishing

20

Wizards of the Coast

34

Chaosium

60

Catalyst

61

Mongoose

62

Evil Hat

70

Palladium

74

Open Design

75

IPR Titles

77

Margaret Weiss

78

Kenzer & Company

89

Fantasy Flight Games

95

Studio Two Publishing

107

Green Ronin

110

Hero Games

So our number one RPG company, Paizo, ranks sixth overall in the store, while Dungeons & Dragons, once a top five company for us, now ranks 20th. Again, just one month; just one store.